The “Recently Added” is a smart playlist. It displays items recently added to iTunes that meet a certain criteria which I believe is a date range. If you don’t want certain items to appear in this playlist, you need to edit the selection criteria for this smart playlist. Deleting an item from here pretty much deletes the item from your entire library.

If recently imported CDs aren’t automatically being named correctly and you end up with track 1, track 2, etc, which leaves you with several items with the same name, you have at least 2 solutions I can think of off the top of my head.

Option 1: Even though these items have the same track name, iTunes can still tell them apart. The CD number is probably how iTunes is telling them apart. You can manually edit each item and based on the track and CD number, enter the correct name or at least a name that means something to you. This option is somewhat tedious because you’ll have to keep track of which thing you’re editing. Kind of easy to lose track and make silly mistakes.

Option 2: Remove all of these items from your library and start over (which is what I think you want to do). Then after importing each CD manually rename each track from that CD before you import the next one. This option is pretty much like option 1 but there is less of a chance you’ll make a silly mistake; however, it means you have to re-import each item previously imported.

Hope that helps. If not, please comment again with a little more detail.

P.S. My birthday is on Jume 9th =)

thank you soooo much for this, i was like freaking out that i couldn’t get the playlist back.. this helped!!

thankyou!

Thanks for stopping by and posting a question. Sorry I couldn’t be of more assistance.